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The Equine Disease Communication Center is an industry-driven initiative that works to protect horses and the horse industry from the threat of infectious diseases in North America. EDCC is designed to seek and report real-time information about diseases, similar to how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerts the human population about disease in people.
Nat White, DVM, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, discusses the past two years of reportable diseases from the EDCC. He says any veterinarians that have a disease confirmed by a test can report the disease on the EDCC website. Anyone can receive the alerts that go through the EDCC and are verified, but only veterinarians or state veterinarians can report a disease.
Source: EquiManagement, May 7, 2021. Link.
The only way we’re going to control and stop the spread of these diseases is if people are educated as to how that happens and how they need to vaccinate their horses.”